[Tewder]

I love the schizophrenic look it originally had, and I love the mock Tudor look.... obviously This look was quite popular in Toronto and there are still some notable examples of it around.

 

[TKTKTK]

It's more what's done with EIFS than EIFS itself (a poor craftsman blames his tools).

Berkeley Street stands out in my mind as a good example of recovering brick facades without ruining them entirely in the process — though I'm sure that was done with some other rendering material, there's nothing standing in the way of EIFS being used similarly.

 

[Aaron]

Please remember that some of us lack the ability (hardware/software) to access Google Streetview.

What exactly are you lacking, Goldie?

 

[Mustapha]

November 5 addition.


Bay Street Bus Terminal. Go check it out, and pretend its 1931, presumably when the 'Then' beauty photo was taken, soon after it was built.

A 'Now' photo can't be taken from the mezzanine anymore. There are offices up there.

 

[Urban Shocker]

So sadly compromised by so many small changes - a bit like what has happened with the degradation, by stages, of Royal Bank Plaza's interior. I wouldn't have minded if a bold and contemporary intervention had taken place somewhere along the line, but this death of a thousand cuts is depressing.

 

[syn]

^Don't forget the unnecessary additions. Are those black rectangles video screens? Those plants aren't really necessary either.

 

[LordWanker]

It has been nearly six years since I've been down to this stretch of The Beaches but here is a shot of Queen Street East just east of Lee Ave looking west (circa 1890s)?

 

[TKTKTK]

I think the above is actually at Waverley looking West...

 

[Tewder]

Great picture Lord Wanker... have you met Master Bates?

(apologies)

 

[LordWanker]

Great picture Lord Wanker... have you met Master Bates?

(apologies)

I think the above is actually at Waverley looking West...

I sourced the pic from here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:QueenStreetEastofLee.jpg and assumed the description was correct. However reviewing the perspective from TKTKTK's link based on the Beach Firehall tower......who knows

 

[thecharioteer]

Rosedale:

Sherbourne Street North, north of Elm Avenue (January 17, 1938):

 

[adma]

^Don't forget the unnecessary additions. Are those black rectangles video screens? Those plants aren't really necessary either.

Arrival/departure boards? (And I can see a plant in the old photo.)

As adaptations go, it could (and, ten or twenty years earlier, probably would) have been a lot worse--hey, they tried, and at least they kept the whole double-height-lobby-and-mezzanine parti. But those new railings are really self-conscious and, compared to the originals, unnecessary. As is the tiling by the entrance stair...

 

[Mustapha]

November 6 addition.





Then: King and Bathurst, SW corner.

Another one of Mr. Wiley's Toronto Archive photos. There appears to be a 1966-ish Mercury car at the photo edge; meaning that this photo could have been taken anytime after that.

Now: September 2009.

 

[jn_12]

strange, I thought the wheat sheaf was one of the (if not the) oldest pubs in Toronto. Perhaps what they mean is that there's always been a pub at this location but it has gone through a few different names over time.

 

[CityPlaceN1]

Or they are misrepresenting themselves. Shame about the building with the Coffee Time. Looked better in the "Then" photo.